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Filed April 11, 1925 Z'SheetS-Sheet 2 2 .w 1 Fl! 2 4 w 7 1 W p 0 2 g Patented June 5, 1928.

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RATION OI AMERICA, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORA- Application filed April 11, 1925. Serial No. 22,888.

This invention relates to i boxes made of fibre or paper sists of the matters hereina and more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

The invention relates more especially to mprovements in v board and contransverse section through the box, and in fter described part an end elevation.

Figure 4 is aview representing in part a Figure v5 is a view showing alongitudinal sect on through the top part of the box.

F1gure'6 is a perspective view of a someimprovements in what is known as the rewhat difierent form of boxprovided with the cessed end box such as shown in Patent.No. 1,125,782, heretofore granted to Lettersinvention.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of the box I Inc on January 19, 1915, and other related of Figure 6 opened up ready for packing.

tubular body and two 'ends or, heads, which are secured in three blanks which go to make up the box.

place, one at the beginning 0 oration and the other after the loadin eration is completed, and are known as endi the loading opopverse section through, the x.

Figure 9 is a view showin apartial, trans- Figure 10 1s a view of a partial, longiloaders, due to the fact-that the contents tudinal section through the box.

are introduced and packed in the body Referring now to that embodiment of the through one end after the other end has been invention illustrated in the drawings and attached. Such boxes are of great strength, more particularly in Figures 1 to 5;--the particularly at the ends and are in wide use. box is made up of a body "blank 10 and of In many cases it is desirable to use what w like n a k 1, 11. Th b dy blank is known as the top-loader -that is to is provided with parallel, longitudinally exsay, a box wherein the tubular body of the tending crease lines 12, which divide said box includes-flaps or cover wings adapted to blank into a bottom part 13, two side parts ends of the box, which are both ap open one side of the box and to close on the 14, 14 and narrow cover flaps or wings 15, plied and 15. The end blanks 11 are each cut and Figure 8 is a view in which are shown the secured to the body when the box is set up creased to provide an end wall l6, two narv for loading. The object of the present inrow side flaps 17 17 ,\a narrow bottom flap vention is to provide a recessed end box, 18, and a narrow flap 19 at the top to which with all the advantages due to the construcis connected a cover flap extension 20, which tion of the ends of such a box,

and with is adapted to fold along a crease line 21 back on the narrow flap 19.

The box-is set up and the blanks are at r loading after tached together in the well-known manner in secured which recessed end boxes are made, with the in place and to be closed and sealed after narrow side flaps 17, 17 securedto the mar;

the box is loaded.

ginal end parts of the side walls 14, 14 of 7 Another object of the invention is to prothe body blank and with the narrowbottom duce a top loadin box, in which the closure flap 18 secured to the ,marginal end part of flaps at the top si e of the boxmay be seale rip, withflap extensions 20, 20 are made of such length by means of a single sealing st V t the ends that when the two of them are folded over Y of the box.

These and other objects and advantages or butt at their ends, as shown 1n Figure 1, of the invention will ap ear more fully as I or will overlap, as shown in Figure 5. proceed with my specl cation.

In the drawings:

d the bottom wall 13 of said blank. The cover to close the Body of the box, they will meet I The narrow flaps 17 and 18 of the end blanks are attached to the body blank by Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the any familiar means, as by staples, stitching ready for shipping.

improved box as it appearswhensealed and or other .efiicient attaching means. After the box is packed and ready for sealing the Figure 2 is a view in.perspective shogving narrow "cover wings 15, 15. connected to the in K nFigure 3' are shown pl several which goto m down on-the' contents of.the box and the anvieivs of the end cover flap extensions 20 connectedlto ake up the box. the end blanks are then folded down upon I the box partially opened up ready for sides 14, 14 of the body blank are turned top of 'the'side wings 15, 15, whereupon'the box is sealed by the application of a transversely-extending sealing strip 22, as shown in Figures 1 and 5.

It will be noted from an examination of Figure 5 that when theend flap extensions 20, 20 are folded down upon top of the side wings 15, 15, as above described, the marginal parts of the wings 15, near the ends of the box are embraced between the narrow flap 19 at the top of the end wall 16 and the end cover flap extension 20.

Thus not only is a closure made, Without gaps, adjacent the end wall of the box,-but

in addition, a very strong construction is produced.

The one sealing strip 22 efiiciently' closes and seals the box. But, if desired and for purposes of additional strength, staples may be applied to rigidly connect the cover flap extensions 20, the flaps 19 and the marginalparts of the side wings 15 embraced between them, rigidly together, as indicated by the staples shown at 25 in dotted lines in Fig-.

ure 1. a I

The construction described presents a recessed end box in the form of a"top .loader and has. allthe advantages of strength at the ends of such a box, combined with the convenience of packing of a top loader? In addition, it has the advantage that the box may be absolutely sealed with the use of the one sealing strip, where, heretofore, it has been necessary to use three sealing strips.

Instead of the sealing strip, the cover flap extensions 20, 20 may be sealed and attached to the cover wings 15, 15 (and to each other at their ends, when they overlap) by cement,

silica or other suitable material generally used in the art for attaching a board in flat engagement with another paper board. .In

66 blank is dispensed with, there being but the 7 single cover flap extension 2O at the top a of said blank. Here, again, the end cover flap extensions are'made of such length as to butt together, asshown in Figure 6, or to overlap, as shown in Figure 10. But, they are folded down uponthe narrow side cover wings 15 of the body and are at-- tached together by a single sealing strip 22 as before.

Both types ofbox illustrated represent manifestly a considerable saving in material when compared to the usual top loadergi since the necessity for extending the cover wings 15, 15 to cover the entire top of the box is eliminated.

' I claim as my invention A top loading recessed end box comprising a body blank and two end blanks, the body blank being creased to provide the bottom and two sides of the box and two side cover Wings, each end blank being-cut and creased to provide an'end of the box, with narrow strips-at the sides, bottom and top thereof, the side and bottom strips being attached within the marginal end of the body blank so that the end of the box is recessed within said body, and the top strip having a cover extension which folds back onsaid top strip, the two side cover wings resting on the end top strips, and the two top cover extensions folding down upon the side cover wings and being sealed thereon, the side, bottom and top strips of each end blank cooperating with the body of the box and the top cover extensions to form an outwardly extending reinforcing rib at each end of the box.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention, I aflix my signature this 8th day of April, A. D. 1925.

HARRISON B. WALTER. 

